Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backups?

[Guillaume F. <gf...@lo...>]

At 14:39 -0400 07/06/02, Chris Snyder wrote:
>Thanks for considering it.  My main work computer still hasn't been 
>backed up because it takes so long.  That could also be because of 
>the K6-2 400 mhz backup server that has compression on 9 because I'm 
>short on disk space.<g>  I'm trying to convince the boss to let me 
>get an Athlon 2 ghz, 240 gig RAID backup server, but he's watching 
>his pennies very closely right now.<g>

My (few) experiments with gzip show that most of the times, a 
compression of -1 of -9 gives the same results, -9 just takes much 
longer. In your case, maibe -5 would be a reasonnable choice; -9 is 
not (IMHO).

Best,
GFK's
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